2008年10月13日 星期一

The underlying system contains several new features that are not yet released. The libraries is based on Ubuntu Intrepid beta, and the whole plate UI is now moved from Gecko to WebKit, using the Gtk+/WebKit binding to reduce image size, memory consumption and starting time.

All of these will be release in xPUD 0.9, and you can download the rootfs snapshot from here to test and reproduce demonstration result.

2008年9月20日 星期六

We're glad to release a development version of xPUD, the whole OS image is only 24MB, comes with faster boot time (5.09 seconds on EeePC 701), and the user interface with small screen support. xPUD now can be a great WebOS platform!

This is a bug fixing version of xPUD 0.8 series with small modification, and all of these new features are for demo purposes only right now.

New Features:

Built-in Gears Support

Because of the "App" tab is temporary replaced with "Web" to show how easily to mash-up with web applications, we also make Gears bundled with plate UI.

Improved Boot Time

The image size is also reduced down to 24MB by removed media player, so the loading time is improved. You can get further result if the testing machine includes SSD.

Improved plate UI

640x480 resolution support is available and results good on small device like EeePC 701. The boot time is now auto-calculating by script.

Known Issues

Limited hardware support, you may need to download rootfs and recompile kernel to fit your needs

Boot time counts form boot loader to X starting by using /proc/uptime, so it may not be accurate

You still need to take some move on touchpad/mouse to bring out plate UI while X is starting

In addition to Gears, lxtask, gpicview and xclock are also included. You can switch back to App tab by using /root/plate/template/exec.html.bak